The markets got a little bit of this and little bit of that this past week and the Dow lost a fraction on what many would consider, an idling of the data points. The Chinese economy still seems to have some legs to it and the US Trade Deficit contracted last quarter. Earnings are still a positive and unemployment is begrudgingly shrinking. Whil...

So, after five years of tumult and frustration, the market has broken through that magical 14,000 barrier on the Dow. While it may seem significant to the media and to most lay people, it really is just a number and we don’t like to get caught up in simple numbers. The thing that needs to be remembered is that while all time highs on the Dow an...

Out with the old, in with…Old. The president will be sworn in for his second term on appropriately enough, Rev. Martin Luther King’s Birthday holiday. Symbolic indeed. The President once again has his hands full with the uncertainty in the economy, the reticence of Congress to reduce spending and a World that is in as much turmoil as we have...

Are we out of the woods as far as relying on our politicians are concerned? Surprisingly, the powers that be did come in right under the wire with a plan. Does it give any sort of solution to a problem that our kids and their kids will be dealing with? No, it doesn’t, but it’s a start. We have the issue of the debt ceiling looming and that wi...

Now that it is an irrefutable fact, our leaders do not have the country’s best interest at heart. What do we do? What we should do is impeach all members of Congress and start over. Surely there are 500 or so people in this country who actually care enough about this country and not some partisan ideological BS. Ok, the rant is over. Now c...